Founded in 1885, the Kansas City Art Institute is a premier four-year college of art and design.
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- Kansas City, MO, 64111
- Phone:
- 800-522-5224
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- 125th Anniversary Gala
Grand Ballroom, Kansas City Convent...
Saturday, February 20 at 6:00pm
Kansas City Art Institute wishes you a warm and wonderful holiday season and invites you to create your own holiday sweater http://kcaiholidaycard.com/
Kansas City Art Institute Trivial pursuit: The man who illustrated the "Porky Pig" cartoons - Melvin "Tubby" Eugene Millar - once studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. This according to the Wichita Eagle http://tinyurl.com/yf4o26e.
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This is one in a series of vignettes celebrating Kansas history. The series' name comes from the state motto, Ad astra per aspera: "To the stars through difficulties."
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Check out the new video about the KCAI foundation program, featuring commentary by Associate Professor Russell Ferguson, director of the program. Scroll to bottom of page to view: http://www.kcai.edu/academics/schools/sc
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Foundation at KCAI could be the most intense but rewarding year of your life. Foundation students explore fundamental concepts and skills through intense studio work. Various media and situations teach new strategies and promote respect for materials, process and quality. ...
Kansas City Art Institute Finals week began today. Good luck, KCAI students!
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As KCAI prepares to celebrate our 125th anniversary in 2010, it's fun to come across a historical tidbit about KCAI and Walt Disney, who took Saturday classes here as a child, in the Nov. 30 blogpost of Vintage Disney Collectibles. (Disney would have been 108 Dec. 5). http://vintagedisneymemorabilia.blogspot
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Even today Mr. Disney still refers to Miss Howell as his ‘boss’ at Neufchateau. Pals on the battlefield – they remain closest of friends here at home, although hundreds of miles separate them. ...
Kansas City Art Institute Tonight at KCAI: 5 p.m. exhibition and sale of student work; 7 p.m. performance event hosted by photography and digital filmmaking department (Epperson).
Kansas City Art Institute This just in from Maria Buszek, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history: Sarah Brecko ('09 printmaking and art history) has been selected to serve as assistant to the Graduate Group for German and Austrian Studies at the State University of New York-Buffalo, where she is also a graduate teacher and pursuing an M.A. degree in art history.
Kansas City Art Institute Misty Gamble, special instructor in ceramics, is featured in the December issue of Ceramics: Art and perception. "Unlike some artists whose work can be overly provocative, Gamble lures attention to her sculpture with accepted safe symbols like bright colors or nice clothes, only to trick perceived security with siniste...r humor," wrote author Nancy Service. Below: The artist's Chanel Series.
Kansas City Art Institute The end-of-semester exhibition and sale starts at 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, and continues Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 5 and 6. Details are posted on the events calendar at www.kcai.edu.
Kansas City Art Institute "A stimulating and productive decade" says The Star's art critic, Alice Thorson, about the first 10 years of the H&R Block Artspace. http://tinyurl.com/ya76ouu
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Block Artspace celebrates its 10th anniversary this month — and a stimulating and productive decade it has been. From the moment the gallery opened just off Main Street on 43rd, it became the ...
Kansas City Art Institute Hugh Merrill, foundation and printmaking professor, has been named an Urban Hero. Kansas City's Downtown Council will present the award Dec. 2.
Kansas City Art Institute Costumes by fiber instructor Peggy Noland are featured on Sesame Street when Tilly and the Wall sing the ABCs - check out the video at www.kcai.edu/academics/majors/fiber (scroll down to see Noland's bio and then click on "Read More" to access the video).
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The fiber department at KCAI combines traditional and experimental practices to provide students with technical and conceptual training. You will have opportunities to explore contemporary issues in art and design within the context of a working studio environment. ...
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Dan Cameron, founding director and chief curator of Prospect New
Orleans, an international biennial whose first edition opened one year ago this month, speaks at 7 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 19) in Epperson Auditorium as part of the Current Perspectives lecture series. For more info about Dan and the series, visit www.kcai.edu/events/current-perspectives
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The Kansas City Art Institute is pleased to announce the fall lineup of artists, designers and scholars who will speak as part of the college's "Current Perspectives" lecture series.
Kansas City Art Institute Faculty members Karen McCoy, Brett Reif, George Timock and Michael Wickerson speak at 7 p.m. tonight in Epperson about how international experiences have influenced their work. The presentat is part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, sponsored by the Kauffman foundation. www.unleashingideas.org
Kansas City Art Institute A podcast of a very moving lecture by Professor Milton Katz on "Creative Defiance: The Art of the Holocaust" is now available for viewing on the KCAI Web site at http://tinyurl.com/ydqed2f
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Professor Michele Fricke lectures on art and architecture in Renaissance Italy and, in this brief excerpt, shares a description of what it's like to paint with bistre ink.
